Malaysia’s communications regulator ordered TikTok to take immediate remedial measures after offensive and defamatory content about the monarchy circulated online. The order requires TikTok to strengthen moderation policies and provide a formal explanation for failing to block grossly offensive, false, menacing, and insulting material, including AI-generated videos and manipulated images. The regulator said it views the use of online platforms to disseminate false or harmful content as serious, especially when it involves the monarchy. It issued the order after determining TikTok’s response to earlier notifications was unsatisfactory. The regulator said it will continue taking firm and proportionate action to ensure platforms uphold responsibilities for a safe, secure, and respectful online environment. Malaysia penalizes speech that inspires hatred or contempt toward the royal family under a 1948 sedition law.
"Malaysia's internet watchdog has ordered TikTok to take action against offensive and defamatory content about the country's monarchy. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said on Thursday that it had instructed the video-sharing platform to take immediate remedial measures in response to an account purporting to be linked to King Sultan Ibrahim."
"The MCMC said its order requires the social media company to strengthen its moderation policies and provide a formal explanation for its failure to block the grossly offensive, false, menacing and insulting content, including AI-generated videos and manipulated images. The regulator said it takes a serious view of online platforms being used to disseminate content that is false or detrimental to public order, particularly as it relates to the monarchy."
"It added that it issued the order after finding TikTok's response to previous notifications to be unsatisfactory. TikTok, founded by Chinese tech company ByteDance, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. MCMC will continue to take firm and proportionate action where necessary to ensure digital platforms operating in Malaysia uphold their responsibilities in maintaining a safe, secure and respectful online environment, the watchdog said in a statement."
"Malaysia, a constitutional monarchy, penalises speech deemed to inspire hatred or contempt against the royal family under a sedition law passed in 1948. The watchdog's order against TikTok is the latest move by authorities in the Southeast Asian country to regulate social media platforms. In January, the MCMC briefly blocked access to the AI assistant Grok amid a global backlash over its use to create sexually explicit images of people without their consent."
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]